Chairman of the adhoc committee set up by Speaker Alban Bagbin to probe the leaked tape on the ousting of the Inspector General of Police, Samuel Atta Akyea, has announced that a new audio is in the possession of the committee.

Reports indicate that Mr Atta Akyea made the disclosure on Monday, September 4, to the media after interrogating Superintendent George Asare.

“We have the benefit of a tape, on the assumption that it’s authentic. Members of the committee will have to listen to the tape and read the transcript, which will give us ideas on what to do next. First of all, do we bring all the stakeholders together with their lawyers for cross-examination and cross-firing to take place, while listening attentively? And then, after they have finished, will we have our turn?” he is quoted to have said by Citinewsroom.

During the interrogation of COP Alex Mensah last week, the accused noted that the leaked tape currently in circulation has been altered.

COP Alex Mensah managed to identify some parts of the audio but failed to accept the audio in its totality.

“This is an edited tape; there are so many things in that tape that I heard today that I do not remember, and there are certain things I remember that we discussed that are not on the tape,” he said.

When Superintendent George Asare faced the Committee, he also corroborated COP Alex Mensah's statement.

“Honourable chair in my earlier comments to the committee, it was clear that the tape is incomplete, and whoever masterminded that tape which of course you will get to know by the close of day if not today, but I don’t know when the in-camera engagement will take place but before I sign out, you will understand everything," he said.

Last week, former Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Chief Bugri Naabu, informed the Committee that he sent a copy of the tape he had recorded to the president.

"Commander Asare and COP Mensah said currently all the Commissioners at the Police Headquarters are all NDC and we will see whether we will win this election or lose it. So that alone I was a bit worried...that was the reason why I did the tape and gave the President the tape. So that he will also hear directly and not from me, which I did."

But COP Alex Mensah believes the tape was recorded by an individual directed by IGP Dr George Akuffo Dampare. He alleges that the original tape is with the IGP.

“So the tape, according to my intel is with the IGP and he caused it to be leaked,” he made the claim when he made his second appearance before the committee tasked to investigate an alleged plot to remove the IGP on Friday, September 1.

Meanwhile, the Abuakwa South Member of Parliament, Atta Akyea, is claimed to have stated that the committee will, in the coming days, hold in-door cameras with the accused.

“And then, are there matters which should not come into the public domain because of national security implications? So we will hold a long in-house or in-camera hearing, and then we will make some sense of it. This is how we are going to proceed. We will be guided strongly by the fact that this is not a simple exercise and that not everything should be fed to the public."